Installing Canon Printer Drivers on Ubuntu

It took me a while to find out how to do this so i thought i would share the information.

I recently bought a Canon MG3200 all in one printer and wanted to install the printing element of the device onto my wife 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It should work on newer versions of Ubuntu as well.

I had a poke around on the internet and found the following information

open command window and run the following commands agreeing to everything it asks, It may ask for the administrators password.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-stable
Then

sudo apt-get update

And finally the following command to add install the printer. you need to
replace the printer name you are installing with the one you own.

sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mg3200series

The above command will install the driver for an mg3200 printer if you had an ip4900 you would execute the following command.

sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-ip4900series 

This should now plug and play the printer driver when you connect it.

This doesn't work for all the canon printers but hopefully yours is one of the supported ones,

Hope this helps
Good Luck